The Quarter Peal Week will end with a grand Branch Dinner on Saturday February 28th at The Furze Bush, near Newbury. Partners and Guests are welcome to come along. The cost is £25 per person, with a £5 deposit payable in advance.

More details, including menu choices and how to book, can be found on the invitation.

Now that 2015 calendars have been opened it is time to book in for this year's Branch Outing. The outing is a great opportunity to catch up with ringers from across the branch and ring at some different towers.

Hungerford tower will be hosting the Branch Practice and Branch AGM on Saturday 7th March.

Ringing will take place from 3pm to 4pm. This will be followed by a 30 minute service, and then tea will be served. The 2015 Annual General Meeting of the Newbury Branch will start at 5:15pm. Branch members are encouraged to attend.

The 2015 Quarter Peal Week will run from Sunday 22nd to Saturday 28th February. The aims of the week are:- To involve as many Branch Members as possible.- To attempt quarter peals in as many of the ringable Branch towers as possible.- To promote bell-ringing and gain local publicity.

For the past few weeks Newbury tower has been acting as temporary home to a number of ringers from Kingsclere while their tower was inaccessible due to maintenance. Kingsclere tower is ringable again and so we will say goodbye to them. It was nice to have a busy tower with new faces - over 20 ringers for some of the Monday evening practices!

The ringing that is planned for Christmas and the New Year at St Nic's in addition to the usual Sunday mornings and Monday evenings:- 24th December 11pm (prior to Midnight Communion service at 11:30pm)- 25th December 7:30am (prior to Traditional Holy Communion at 8am)- 25th December 9:30am (prior to Family Communion at 10am)- 31st December 11:30pm (we will be ringing in the New Year!)

The Oxford Guild 10 bell striking competition was held on Saturday 22nd November. The Newbury Branch put in a team and out of 8 entries, we came 7th, a very respectable result and one that gave a good account of ourselves considering the opposition.